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Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Rayon Design. PICTURE a supertall skyscraper. About as tall as the Empire State Building. Only, this skyscraper doesn’t have offices and hotels and observation decks. This has one apartment per floor. And they’re not even particularly big apartments. Because this skyscraper is extremely, extremely skinny. We’re talking about Muraba Veil, far and away one of the skinniest skyscrapers ever built.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Incogni. THIS probably sounds like a cliché but Bishoftu Airport (BIA) is about to change the world of travel forever. It costs a whopping $12.5 billion dollars and you won’t find it in America, Europe or Asia. Over in East Africa, Ethiopia has begun work on the biggest aviation project in the history of the continent.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for RoomSketcher. FIRST CANADIAN PLACE has been the tallest building in Canada since 1975, looming 298 metres over Toronto for more than 50 years. But FCP is about to lose its crown. Just five minutes down the road, Pinnacle SkyTower is preparing to open as Canada’s first ever supertall skyscraper. At 352 metres it soars high above its aging counterpart, setting a precedent in the city and this is just the beginning.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for KiwiCo. A few years ago the Sphere kind of broke the internet… And now it’s back, with a vengeance. Cities all over the world are planning to build their own Spheres. Abu Dhabi. Korea. Washington DC. Singapore. Sure, it looks cool, and if they pull this off it could change live entertainment forever. But does any of this actually make economic sense? Two and a half years on, The Vegas Sphere still hasn’t made a profit.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Brilliant. BENEATH the desert west of the Nile, a network of tunnels is being carved through the sand. They are among the first visible signs of one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Egypt’s modern history, an attempt to create a new agricultural landscape and relieve mounting pressure on the Nile Delta. For thousands of years, the delta has sustained Egypt’s population, but that system is now under strain.

LET’S be honest: for most of us the obsession with architecture and construction started with LEGO and we still love playing with the stuff, even though we’re now officially 'grown-ups'. Nothing gets kids excited about the world of building quite like a LEGO kit. That’s why we’ve invested in UK LEGO subscription service Brick Borrow to help inspire the next generation of young builders.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Odoo. THE NEW YORK MEGA SEA WALL is a real project proposed by the US Army that eventually, in some form, will be built. It will be the first thing you’d come across if you were a hurricane approaching Manhattan. From the Rockaways to a strip of land in New Jersey south of Staten Island is an enormous wall nearly 10 kilometres long. This is a Mega Sea Wall. So big, it needs its own classification.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for AMD. For the past decade, Greater Vancouver has been caught in a debate: SkyTrain or LRT? The region's suburbs are developing rapidly and desperately need new infrastructure to connect the sparsely serviced areas of Surrey and Langley. A SkyTrain would glide over the street-level chaos below while a Light Rail System would create a walkable city environment at just a fraction of the material costs.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Bentley Systems. THIS is the largest megaproject of its kind anywhere in Europe. What is now a big muddy trench is set to become a critical new trade route, connecting France to Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond. But it’s not simply a new road or railway; this is a canal, and a seriously big one.

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Rayon Design. THIS building has a story unlike any other. Once the jewel in the crown of two giant empires, for 1,500 years it has just about survived wars, looting, fires and multiple earthquakes. But a recent surge in seismic activity has sparked fears this magnificent structure could be in mortal danger when a very big quake hits in the future – and that really is not a case of ‘if’ but ‘when’.